http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Apple plans to open first ever shop in the Capital" en Sat, 16 May 2026 22:18:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168574 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:49:07 +0000 crowriver 168574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I might visit once Apple releases a modern version of its legendary Extended keyboard. Pigs may also fly."</p> <p>Yes, great product. Using one right now!</p> <p>Can be had in good condition second hand on fleaBay for not that much, if you're prepared to bid low on a few auctions and wait to get lucky. Bought one for the kids' Mac that way (replacement for one where the usb connector was dipped in natural yoghurt by No.2 daughter while 3 years old. Not recommended!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168573 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:39:14 +0000 Ed1 168573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I may pop in just to see how much would cost for an upgrade I don't need still smugly using my I phone 3 does not seem there has been any real innovation since not much added utility at least. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168572 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:32:33 +0000 Arellcat 168572@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I might visit once Apple releases a modern version of its legendary Extended keyboard. Pigs may also fly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168539 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 07:39:48 +0000 SRD 168539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SaltireChaz: Its 6:17 am &amp; 6 people are queuing at the new apple store @edinburghpaper @EdinReporter #sadgits </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168293 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:33:21 +0000 gembo 168293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That Apple shop will have a tall man in black with various bicycles in it so often staff will stop seeing him. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168290 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:19:32 +0000 chdot 168290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I notice in Bruntsfield link there is no cycling painted on the path by the golf course at one end of a path but not the other. I wonder if this is just left from a time ago."</p> <p>Yes. </p> <p>CEC managed to (eventually) remove all other out of day signs/markings on the Links/Meadows, but for unknown reasons this one remains. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168287 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:12:16 +0000 Ed1 168287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just along from Harvey Nicole’s Multree walk ,the street with where you can not cycle, could not take photographs and could not smoke. On tube there is videos of the private security following people around Edinburgh harrasing and intimidating people for taking photos. </p> <p>I see they have relaxed the photos and smoking, but still no cycling signs. </p> <p>Blocks of land get bought up by developers and end up with privatized streets I noticed this in London where there was traditional streets bought up and then no access. As far as I am aware this is in the only street in Edinburgh that does not allow cycling. </p> <p>I notice in Bruntsfield link there is no cycling painted on the path by the golf course at one end of a path but not the other. I wonder if this is just left from a time ago. </p> <p>Where as I can see Harvey Nicoles bringing people in to Edinburgh you can already buy apple products in Edinburgh, although may bring some people in can see it brings some people in think the Harvey Nicoles comparison my apple is a bit grand. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168280 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:26:35 +0000 chdot 168280@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's all just kaputnilism. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168276 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:11:13 +0000 kaputnik 168276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The article is the usual uniformed Chipwrapper drivel.</p> <p><em>It is expected to provide the same commercial fillip achieved at St Andrew Square in the years following Harvey Nichols’ launch in 2002 </em></p> <p>What commercial fillip is that? One side of the square has sat unnoccupied for years (half of which) is currently being pulled down. the next side has 1 shop, a Sainsbury's, the third has offices only and the fourth has a prominent former bank HQ that has sat vacant for as many years as Harvey Nichols' has been there.</p> <p><em>Primark launched its Princes Street outlet in December 2011... but nothing compares with the chaos that met the opening of Krispy Kreme</em></p> <p>Wait. What is it that Edinburgh needs. Expensive, iconic and "exclusive" brand stores or cheap and tacky brand stores?</p> <p>The building was originally an expansion for Woolworths, back when Woolworths was an "iconic" brand for the high street. I wonder if the chipwrapper thought it was amazing when the Disney Store and Burger King moved in later on.</p> <p>Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-168235 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:33:24 +0000 acsimpson 168235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"John Donnelly, chief executive of Marketing Edinburgh, said the new Apple store could act as a “trojan horse” attracting more quality brands to Princes Street and surrounding lanes."</em></p> <p>When did trojan horses become positives? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-167662 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:41:25 +0000 amir 167662@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didn't that part of Princes Street have such favourites as Burger King and Disney? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=4#post-167661 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:36:37 +0000 chdot 167661@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/apple-store-to-help-edinburgh-retail-boom-1-3568987" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/apple-store-to-help-edinburgh-retail-boom-1-3568987</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-167499 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:49:32 +0000 chdot 167499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-princes-street-apple-store-opening-date-1-3567469" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-princes-street-apple-store-opening-date-1-3567469</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159319 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:35:27 +0000 gembo 159319@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Norman Lovett played Holly the Computer for about half of red dwarf and Hattie hayridge the other</p> <p>Arnold brown catchphrase Why Not</p> <p>Scottish and Jewish, two racial stereotypes for the price of one he had to suffer the ignominy of watching his father being flung into pubs in Glasgow on a Saturday night. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159309 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:00:32 +0000 Nelly 159309@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Coined by one Arnold Brown (remember him?)"</p> <p>Did he do Red Dwarf? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159296 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:08:32 +0000 I were right about that saddle 159296@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is that the same as "economical with the truth"? </p> <p>[choleric]<strong>No.</strong>[/choleric] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159294 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:00:13 +0000 cb 159294@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IMO recombodna's posts were the funniest, usually snappy one-liners that would get a chuckle from me. he doesn't seem to post so much these days.<br /> Still plenty of good jokes though and wry observations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159293 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:48:12 +0000 chdot 159293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"your proposition is falsified"</p> <p>Is that the same as "economical with the truth"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159291 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:36:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 159291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>There's no humour at all to be had in this place.</em></p> <p>I'd agree that phlegmatic posts are in short supply, but examples of choleric, sanguine and melancholic ones are reasonably easy to find (yours is melancholic), therefore your proposition is falsified. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159287 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:15:28 +0000 Cyclingmollie 159287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Insto: <em>"I'd have thought the last person you'd trust would be the evil corporation itself. "</em></p> <p>It didn't occur to me that he could be lying. </p> <p><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Steffen">Alex Steffen*</a> said "Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience." </p> <p>I think you are right when you say "it's really defeatist if you're also the kind of person keen on radical social change, if your starting point is that the people are gullible schmucks". Apple was founded on idealism and optimism and it's just a bit weird to find a quote that seems so at odds with that.</p> <p>*I've just found an essay he wrote called "My other car is a bright green city". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159284 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:10:59 +0000 chdot 159284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Coined by one Arnold Brown (remember him?)"</p> <p>Did he go back to accountancy? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159281 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:07:32 +0000 crowriver 159281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Humour is an extremely serious business."</p> <p>Pretty sure that was a running joke amongst professional comedians at the Perrier awards back in the early 1990s. That exact phrase. Coined by one Arnold Brown (remember him?). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159279 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:59:36 +0000 chdot 159279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Humour is an extremely serious business."</p> <p>That's too subtle for me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159278 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:58:16 +0000 chdot 159278@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I fail to see how the time it takes for the kettle to boil can be considered wasted time."</p> <p>Indeed. There is some implicit assumption that 'you can't do anything else' - like find the pot, cups, biscuits etc.</p> <p>"only to discover that you forgot to fill it with water"</p> <p>Yes, definitely a need for a self-fulfilling kettle! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159277 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:54:06 +0000 Min 159277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Humour is an extremely serious business. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159275 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:47:08 +0000 acsimpson 159275@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I fail to see how the time it takes for the kettle to boil can be considered wasted time. Surely the time is just as wasted if you tell the kettle to boil from the couch and wait for an email before getting up only to realise that it is now off the boil and so your tea will be ruined.</p> <p>Imagine the feeling of despondence when your log into your kettle during the last few minutes of your commute home only to discover that you forgot to fill it with water in the morning and you'll now need to wait another 45 seconds for your cuppa. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159271 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:39:06 +0000 chdot 159271@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course cost/value/time saving is all relative. </p> <p>If you had one of these -</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/blog/2014/07/specialized-s-works-mclaren-tarmac" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/blog/2014/07/specialized-s-works-mclaren-tarmac</a></p> <p>would you 'save' time by going faster or 'waste' more by cycling more?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159269 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:28:23 +0000 chdot 159269@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"That awful dead time between switching it on and the water boiling."</p> <p>Watched kettle and all that. </p> <p>Think of all those people who stick their kettles on the gas - all that extra dead time... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159268 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:24:36 +0000 chdot 159268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I couldn't tell if it was humour as it was quite subtle."</p> <p>Subtle? On CCE?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1474&page=3#post-159266 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:17:23 +0000 cb 159266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I couldn't tell if it was humour as it was quite subtle. Thought I would check. </p>